From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
Cc: 25220@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25220: tar-untar-buffer doesn't support symlinks
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 13:11:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87imrnka00.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877f6yccc4.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> (npostavs@users.sourceforge.net's message of "Sat, 17 Dec 2016 19:25:47 -0500")
npostavs@users.sourceforge.net writes:
> Severity: wishlist
>
> tar-untar-buffer silently converts symlinks into regular files. There
> might be some portability trouble with supporting them, but at least we
> should warn about low fidelity unpacking, as in the patch below.
>
> This initially turned up as a yasnippet bug, because the package's
> tarball was using symlinks. Of course that has to be fixed by avoiding
> symlinks (https://github.com/joaotavora/yasnippet/issues/748).
It looks like this patch was applied at the time, but the bug report
wasn't closed, so I'm doing that now.
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2016-12-18 0:25 bug#25220: tar-untar-buffer doesn't support symlinks npostavs
2019-07-27 11:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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